This looks pretty interesting.

http://tidelandthemovie.com

After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had purchased for his now-deceased mother, Jeliza-Rose's attempts to deal with what's happened result in increasingly odd behavior, as she begins to communicate mainly with her bodiless Barbie doll heads and Dell, a neighborhood woman who always wears a beekeeper's veil.

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says 2005, but this is the first i've seen of it.

Been out in England for a few weeks and the reviews, as always, are six one way, half a dozen the other. I'm a Gilliam freak, so I'll be seeing this in October when it's released here.

"Gilliam couldn't weave a coherent narrative to save his life, blah, blah"


Yet I always like his films.

quote also always applied to Tim Burton

Interesting to see that they did away with he other poster that was all over the internet last year. It had the little girl giving the finger, with sperm swimming all in the background.

ok, did a quick search and found it.

This better be good. Brothers Grimm was horribly disappointing.

For all Demonoid members... an xvid version was upped today.

This movie is fucking awful. It looks like it has potential for the first 10 or 15 minutes, but then it just becomes some weird Deliverance-meets-Freaks mess that never recovers. It doesn't work at all IMO.

Avoid.

Except for Brothers Grimm, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, Twelve Monkeys
and The Fisher King, I completely agree that his post-80's movies have been hideous.

I think Bros. Grimm has been his only misstep post 80s, and quite frankly in terms of most filmmakers fantasy endeavors, it was not too bad.

yep

Let's be sensible about this, shall we?

From the Gillian filmography:

Monty Python and The Holy Grail (1975) ---->excellent, a classic to be watched and quoted over and over, much to the annoyance of others.

Jabberwocky (1977) ---> eh, never saw this one. Heard it was a failure though.

Monty Python's Life Of Brian (1979) ----> Very good overall but never liked those singing episodes.

Time Bandits (1982) ----> A cheap, silly, adventure film with midgets. Liked it when I was 12. For people really into dungeons and dragons.

Monty Python's Meaning Of Life (1983) ----> Excellent sketches. Very funny.

Brazil (1985) -----> Brilliant but markedly strange. Best watched when doped to the gills.

The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (1989) ----> a flight of fancy mess. Last year I happened to come across an old German film of the same name that I think that this story was based on. That one was really good. This one isn't.

The Fisher King (1991) -----> Robin Williams in an excellent performacnce. Very good. I liked it.

12 Monkeys (1995) ---> except for Brad Pitt's loony performance, a waste of time for the most part.

Fear and Loathing In Los Vegas (1998) ----> Another great Johnny Depp performance but for the most part Hunter S. Thompson stuff doesn't do it for me. His bonzo drug hallucinations really get tedious after the first 20 minutes or so.

Brothers Grimm (2003) -----> didn't see it but heard it was all style, no substance.

Tideland (2005) -----> not looking like it will be good.

I so disagree with nearly everything in that post.

excellent

You can't really give Gilliam credit for the Python movies. Direction-wise, he just did the little animations.

I also disagree with just about everything in south pacific's post.

I couldn't be happier about this.

This from the guy who quoted me in his sig for about a week.

...which proves what, that I have bad taste?

Probably.

Yeah, go listen to your U.S. Maple albums


(blech)

Sure, OK.

Gilliam and Jones tag-teamed on the direction, to save money, to film longer hours, to figure out how to get Graham sober, etc. Plus there was the fact they didn't much know what they were doing for Grail and passed the torch back and forth. Hot potato directing, apparently.

Gilliam was the crazy idea guy while Jones was the practical guy who figured out how to pull things off. They did have the whole movie blocked out before filming, so there was a plan in place even if the directors were somewhat novice.

From what I've read, Gilliam and Jones were more split for Meaning Of Life. Gilliam did "Crimson Permanant Assurance" and the animations. Jones did most everything else. But Life Of Brian and Holy Grail were co-directed.

Oh, OK. For some reason, I thought I'd read that he only directed the animations for those.

What a piece of shit movie Tideland is.